“June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies.”
Tulips? Seriously? Mine are out in the middle of April, and by mid May they are pretty much over, let alone into June! My Lilies, well, yes they did finally open:
.. and as for the roses, they've been going mad since the middle of May, or earlier:
Aren't they gorgeous? I am very partial to a yellow rose, but they must be a good strong clear yellow. I have a rose on the side of my house which I grew from a cutting: I call it Megan's Yellow Rose because it came from the garden of a dear, dear lady - called Megan, yes, well done - for whom I worked for something like 14 years: when I first went there, they were a couple, but her husband died five years or so later, so I stayed on with just Megan for a further nine years, before she, too, sadly passed away. During the probate period, while I was maintaining the garden until the grown-up children could sell the house, I took cuttings of my favourite rose from their garden, and it is flourishing with me now.
Well, when new people buy a house, you never know how much they are going to rip out: and of course it is their entire right to do so:
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